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Christians to the future history of the race. It was 

 therefore Christianity which introduced into the con- 

 sciousness of our Aryan peoples the principles of a 

 divine historic power acting on the social economy 

 of mankind, and in this way the natural dignity and 

 enterprising pride of the race was increased. Through 

 this fresh religious intuition and spiritual exaltation, 

 the purity and moral sweetness of the Semitic 

 Nazarene became the law of society, and the church 

 organization gradually assimilated everything to itself, 

 and received divine worship in the person of the 

 supreme Pontiff, who continued for many ages to be 

 the temporal ruler of consciences, of public institu- 

 tions, and of civilization. Strange daring in a race 

 which from its early beginnings down to our own days 

 has been always true to its own character, and in 

 one form or other has displayed vigour, energy, 

 ambition, transforming power, and great designs. 



" This remarkable process could only go on in and 

 through those peoples whose vigour and pride equalled 

 their physical strength; to whom it is death to sit 

 still, and life to be always busy, to transform, all 

 things to their own image, to dominate over all over 

 God by the intellect, over the world by science, over 

 other races by force of arms. After the anthropo- 

 morphic form was given to natural phenomena, which 

 is done to some extent by all races, the gods were 

 made in the image of man ; full of aesthetic imagi- 

 nation, of grand and vigorous conceptions, they 



